A Shtetl Called Dukla

Welcome to Dukla and Jewish Genealogy! Dukla is located in the southern part of Poland,
at latitude 49° 34´, longitude 21° 41´. Although the town began in Poland, it was part of of Galicia (an Imperial Province of the Austrian Empire) from 1776 to1919.

On the map below, Dukla is surrounded clockwise by
Iwonicz-Zdroj , (7 miles ENE),
Rymanow(8 miles East),
Krempna (8 miles WSW)
Zmigrod (7.5 miles WNW),
Chorkowka (6 miles North) and Jedlicze (10 miles North) andKrosno (9 miles NNE). Most of these towns had large Jewish populations until World War II. Those towns that have web pages are underlined in BLUE above; the Krosno web site is a regional one that incorporates information from the entire area. To view the background of our genealogical research group, go to the KehilaLinks page on Zmigrod. On this Zmigrod page you will find in-depth history of the area (Galicia), stories from folks born in the area, fascinating travelogues, links to pertinent web pages on JewishGen, and holocaust information.

Even more importantly, if you are visiting this page because your family came from Dukla, you might want to read about the surrounding communities too, as in Galicia marriages were most often arranged between families from nearby towns; and the young couple lived in one of the family towns. So even if, say, your great grandfather came from Dukla, it is possible that his people came from a neighboring shtetl!

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The Dukla Synagogue: On Cegrowska street one can see the ruins of a synagogue, built in 1758 and destroyed by the Nazis during the war. Near, there is also a building of an old Jewish school.Photo from Robert added May2012

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In Miriam Wiener's wonderful Routes to Roots Foundation, the additional records are listed:

Census 1906-1927 in the State Archive in Sanok

Holocaust Information 1944-1949 in the State Archive in Sanok

Polish Aliah Passports to Palestime 1929-1939 in the Warsaw Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. Note these documents are also available indexed and digitized from the Jewish Records Indexiing-Poland project at http://jri-poland.org/jriplweb.htm

Notary Records 1924-1934 in the Przemysl Archives.

Jewish Community: 1/11/1906-7/17/1927 in the Archives in Skolyszyn

Note that in Poland today there is a 100 year privacy policy on vital records. I have some information on records within this period...and if you are interested, please contact me by clicking on my name
Phyllis Kramer, NYC & PBG,Florida .

Certainly we would hope that if anyone hires a researcher or gets records from this town, they would share that with the rest of us. I am dedicated to putting on this web page anything i receive from fellow researchers.
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The table below was extracted from the JewishGen database of the 1891 Galician Business Directory. Note that listings were similar to the YellowPages directories of today, as they were paid for, and sorted by occupation. The items include: Surname, First name, Dukla or nearby Town, Occupation in German, Occupation translated into English.

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The Joint Distribution Committee

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) was active in Eastern Europe during the 20th century. Recently the JCC has put its archives online. When you do a search at http://archives.jdc.org/archives-search/, the following surnames come up for Dukla: